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buddhi

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[boo-dee, bood-ee] / ˈbu di, ˈbʊd i /

noun

Hinduism, Buddhism.
  1. intellect, seen as an intuitive faculty giving increased spiritual awareness.


Etymology

Origin of buddhi

< Sanskrit; compare bodhati (he) awakes

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When purusha first focuses on prakriti, buddhi, or spiritual awareness, results.

From Textbooks Jun. 15, 2022

Vijñana Bhik@su thus holds that there is a real contact of the puru@sa with the buddhi state in any cognitive state.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

The first is the nature of the connection of the buddhi states with the puru@sa.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

It takes the changing, impure, sorrowful, and objective prak@rti or buddhi to be the changeless, pure, happiness-begetting subject.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

A buddhi associated with a puru@sa is dominated by such an avidyâ, and when birth after birth the same buddhi is associated with the same puru@sa, it cannot easily get rid of this avidyâ.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

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